Renard quits as Morocco coach


Soccer Football - Africa Cup of Nations 2019 - Group D - Morocco v Namibia - Al Salam Stadium, Cairo, Egypt - June 23, 2019 Morocco coach Herve Renard REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

CASABLANCA (Reuters) - Herve Renard has left his post as Morocco coach after their shock early exit at the Africa Cup of Nations.

"It's time for me to close this long and beautiful chapter of my life, not without some emotion and sadness, but it is an inescapable decision made well before the 2019 Cup of Nations,” the 50-year-old Frenchman wrote on Twitter on Sunday.

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